The first table below looks at the demand for MPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MPLS over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Rank 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MPLS 3 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 0.340% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.563% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £31,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
192 175 87
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 21.74% 18.92% 13.72%
Number of salaries quoted 180 159 81
Average salary £39,000 £32,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% +3.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £22,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
MPLS
Hampshire

MPLS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MPLS across the Southampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Southampton MPLS Jobs Demand Trend

MPLS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MPLS across the Southampton region.

Southampton MPLS Salary Trend

MPLS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region citing MPLS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MPLS.

1 4 (66.67%) LAN
1 4 (66.67%) VoIP
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Juniper
2 3 (50.00%) SAN
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 3 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (50.00%) HP
2 3 (50.00%) Dell
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (50.00%) SLA
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) MySQL
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) SonicWALL
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (33.33%) BGP
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (33.33%) MCSE
3 2 (33.33%) MS Excel

MPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region citing MPLS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MPLS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (16.67%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) LAN
1 4 (66.67%) VoIP
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (50.00%) SAN
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (33.33%) BGP
4 1 (16.67%) ISDN
4 1 (16.67%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) IP Telephony
4 1 (16.67%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Operations Manager
3 2 (33.33%) Network Manager
3 2 (33.33%) Network Operations Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (16.67%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCEA
2 2 (33.33%) MCSE
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCA
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (16.67%) Avaya Certification
3 1 (16.67%) CCVP
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) XenApp
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) HP
2 3 (50.00%) Dell
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix
2 3 (50.00%) Juniper
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) SonicWALL
3 1 (16.67%) Avaya